The Virginia Gazette

GERMANY. The Treaty of Peace between the Empress and King of Prussia, consists of 13 Articles, which have the Treaty of Breslau for their Basis, and no new Cession. The first six are in a Manner preliminary. By the 7th Article, the King of Prussia acknowledges the Emperor, and recognizes the Actuality of the Vote of Bohemia. By the 8th the contracting Parties mutually guaranty each others Dominions in Germany, but not elsewhere. In the 9th the King of Great Britain guaranties the present Treaty, and promises his good Offices to procure the like Guaranty from the States General, the Empire, and the Powers concerned in the next general Peace. By the 10th the King of Poland is comprised in this Peace, on the Foot of the Convention of Hanover. The 11th comprehends the King of Great Britain, as Elector of Hanover. And the 12th includes the Elector Palatine with all his Dominions, which are to be restored to him, and all Exactions to cease, as soon as his Electoral Highness Shall have made the same Declaration, with Respect to the Acknowledgment of the Emperor, and the Actuality of the Vote of Bohemia, which his Prussian Majesty has done. By the 13th the Ratifications are to be exchanged in ten Days at farthest. As to the Peace between the Courts of Berlin and Dresden, besides the Principal Articles, specified in our former, the King of Poland gives up to his Prussian Majesty, the Town of Furstenburg, upon the Oder, and the Passage of Schidly, upon the same River, whereby a free Passage is opened from Silesia to Brandenburg. In Return, the King of Prussia parts with some Districts pertaining to Silesia, which were included in Lusatia, or is to give Equivalent, as shall be agreed on. Since this Peace 12,000 Saxons are actually in Readiness to march to the Assistance of the maritime Powers, as soon as the proper Requisitions shall be made. The King of Prussia made magnificent Presents to the Austrian and Saxon Ministers, who sign'd the Treaty, and generously ordered the Prince of Anhalt and Deu to restore what was taken out of the Royal Treasury at Dresden, amounting to above 100,000 Florins, and also the Bills taken from the Merchants, for a much greater Sum. This done, he set out for Berlin, the 27th past, and arrived there amidst the Acclamations of his Subjects, who strewed his Way with Laurels, and saluted him by the Title of Frederick the Great. - Since this happy Event, the Court of Vienna seems absolutely determined to exert its utmost Strength for the Recovery of the Low Countries, and the Preservation of the King of Sardinia: Accordingly 25,000 Men are ordered for the Netherlands, and 20,000 for Italy.